Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-12-04

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neg 6snt 500. e00. go bKlnRl 70 4izoot
900 3 yeas. o. nearly 80 009 day. not
in1iadine bundaysi $1,000 - heaf
would b 4 low eaima1s q What Jay
acnid'a income b, nud Is TIE loEest
knte 81 Interest 4ib Il addsd % he for
tnne every minute Of evaEy day ana
NIGHT ihat be lives. Thess milllonaiFts
aFr rarely satisfied With 6 per eents end
when you remember that 8 psg cent. Of
alo10c0O 4 $4,000 year. u
enables you 70 comprehend aoune-
fbinR 81 fho vniueg Of these Immense
f0ssunea. Thefo Il Isaiah Williamson,
81 philadelphin, who has made 81, CO.,
90 u dFfeeoda, and whose income
onQhf % b Z million aud BALI yeaf-
II. He n the richest bachelor 10 The
unliad States, and spends less than
41o0o q year. WelghtmaB, TIE Phila-
dslphia drugeisi, has also 5000 W,
and Ne biz hleproof safe Il alied with
MORTGAGES. Htlll, be works iust 81 hard
A. ihouah be had nos 9l.000, 600 above
hts expenses, and be experiments IN bic
laboratory with ten cent Apron
aire1ehed around bis roland frame.
RoehafelieF, lhs coal oil millienaiEe. IL
worth seventy millione, and his income
ought 10 he four millions and bali,
but u a poor Standard Oil stock that
does not pay more than Ten per cent,
and KookageiIer'a atock probably pays
nearer Tan million lhhn four. He has
bard time 10 spend Il. and be aaid not
long aeo thaf be hoped The Lord would
holp him. Leland Stanford is another
AZ these blR miilIonairos. He IL wosth
from atty 70 Z hundred millions. and bic
neW university Il 10 cost between Gftean
and twenty millions. He once thought
ha was doing we'll aa Q young lawyer
when be made Si5o0 10 yearly fees, and
donbt not be folt very biue when the
Ere which burned bic library drove Kim
west 70 California and 70 fortune.
MiIlIonairss. a. q gule, oongFegais 10
th6 large cities. Il IL there that ne
meai business n dOne, and 10 IL there
lhaf tho greatest fortunes are made and
Invested. The names az the 6sw York
mAlll0nnlres ara legion. The PALACES q
The mliIiouasEoa 0f Cleveland line En.
elid avenue for miles, and Senator
Palmer Of Michigan says that Detroit
has acero Of men who ere worth q
million dollars and mere. The old
Quaker City on Philadelphia has many
OfmauB, and baltimore, Boston and
uhiGa0o Stand biRh among the cities Of
10 world a. thn abodea Of rich men.
New Haven, Conn, n said 70 have more
wealth han any other city Of is ssza ia
he Dniied States, bpt Senator Mitchell
% Oregon claims thet Portland has
m1Ea and The tafRoF cities Of che west
are known II congress by their million
nife Representatives.
DonteF h becoming q city Of rich
men. Ex-senator Tabor Owls real e.
tate there worth nearly million, and
0ne Of She Banker k0nntz brothers
owns housa n Denvur worth over q
hundred thanmlnd dollars. JUDGE
EYmea, the rcd headed Congressman
who has Judge belf0Fd's seat In She
Moans OF Representatives. hes q big
hleek near Tab0E'a OpeFa House which
hfinEa "a ~ mnoh a. q klng's ransom
every year. II swhrms with lawyers,
and Hfmea has fitted 40 the building for
ieaal Offices aud has pot one Of the larQ.
CT law libraries n the vest 10 Il for lhe
nee uf ils occupants.
Speaking o. Charlie Kountz, The
kountA boys are amongst the most en-.
tsEpFisinE miilionAifes o. the unitef
6laaea. Originally poor boys, they
started cot from the Ohio town 81
Canton 10 make their fortunes. They
enNnged IN banking and each Of the
four Is now worth several millions.
Two % them have magnificent houses
naar New .YoEk--Rgeaf stone palaces
-ln the New Jersey mountains,
above Murrlat0wn. Another haa
home a. Omaha, which d pala-
tini IN lts nppaiutmenia. and 4 fourth
has this hia house az Den
voR. Tabor himself lives n
q hundred thousand dollar house
ana Senator Hin h said 10 be worth 8
million. d. II. Molaii, the president
% Che DenypT a Rio Gfande railroad,
came % Denver e. q bookseller and 4
new worth thfes million, vhile the twe
Clayton brothers. Who bFpaght two
thousand eollars 70 Denver during Lin.
ealnss presidency, are each worth & nil.
lion o. more. Hymes made the most Of
bis money IN mining Law, and ex sena-
toE Hlll's fortune comes from the appll.
cAlion Of acientihn methods 10
he reduction Of pFecloua metals.
Hi was college professor
whoa be came west He vent
10 Swansea, IN Wales. and there
learned the secret process Of smelling.
He came back 30 Denver ana turned
biz knowledge into Gold. He has one
employee IL bis worms Who gets twanty
tAouzand dollars year, ana the sealf-
ing works with which be is connected
extracted last year three miIlion and
. half dollars Wosth o. precisas
metala By their procesa. ecnaiol Teller
b 3 rich nan. Ex Governor Roatt has
made q fortune nince Grant uas Presi.
dent and Jim Belford tells me thai he
expects 70 make $4,000 10 Tie naxi Zen
Yeara
California has been for Year, Z saase
% gold and great fortunes. The whole
world rings Rtih stories Of SIS rich men.
The wife of cue q than daEzles she
eyes Of MI Paris With The splenaos %
her extsavsgance, and The widow %
another builds palace 81 Great Bar
xinRten, Massachusetts,. For Years
Oalltnfnia's seats In the unised states
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